Zandvoort

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Coordinates: 52.37° N 4.53° E
Zandvoort

Country	Netherlands
Province	North Holland
Area (2006)
- Municipality	44.34 km² (17.1 sq mi)
- Land	32.04 km² (12.4 sq mi)
- Water	12.30 km² (4.7 sq mi)
Population (1 January 2007)
- Municipality	16,605
- Density	518/km² (1,341.6/sq mi)
	Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Website: www.zandvoort.nl

Zandvoort is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

Zandvoort is one of the major beach resorts of the Netherlands; it has a long sandy beach. It is also the site of the country's most important automobile racing circuit, Circuit Zandvoort.

There is a nudist beach: from the center 2 km to the south, ca. 6 cafés/restaurants; it extends several kilometers further south.

1 Population centres
2 Transportation
3 Local government
4 Born in Zandvoort
5 Famous Visitors / Residents of Zandvoort
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Population centres

The municipality of Zandvoort consists of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: Bentveld, Zandvoort.

[edit] Transportation

Railway station: Zandvoort (the closest Dutch train station to the beach).

Railway Zandvoort aan Zee to Haarlem (line 12), with stations (municipalities in bold), and official station abbreviations:

Zandvoort aan Zee (zvt)
Overveen (ovn) (mun. Bloemendaal)
Haarlem (hlm) edit

[edit] Local government

On the beach at Zandvoort an Zee

The municipal council of Zandvoort consists of 17 seats, which are divided as follows:

VVD 5 seats
Ouderenpartij 4 seats
PvdA 3 seats
CDA 2 seats
SP 1 seat
Gemeentebelangen 1 seat
GroenLinks 1 seat

[edit] Born in Zandvoort

Piet Keur (1960), Dutch football (soccer) player

[edit] Famous Visitors / Residents of Zandvoort

William Merritt Chase 1884-1885. American Impressionist Painter (1849-1916) Painted one of his masterpieces here entitled "Sunlight and Shadow" which hangs in the Joselyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. [1]